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What is the best way to insert a recognizable line break in a POI file?

 
Tue, 10/14/2008 - 2:25pm

When using Excel, Enter can be used, but it sometimes caused errors. Does anyone have a suggestion for inserting line breaks that are easily recognized across a diverse range of platforms without causing any errors?

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Tue, 10/14/2008 - 5:18pm

Line breaks

There are a few ways depending on the OS, the kind of GPS unit, whatkind of file reader/editor you use, etc. Search fot the topic on the forum there is quite a bit of info. Try typing The carrot pointing left key then BR then the carrot pointing right (no spaces)

Tue, 10/14/2008 - 9:08pm

Try Alt Enter in Excel

Try Alt Enter in Excel

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Tue, 10/14/2008 - 10:20pm

Alt Etner

bentbiker wrote:

Try Alt Enter in Excel

This works for me! Straight forward and simple.

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Wed, 10/15/2008 - 2:29pm

Thanks

Thanks

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 4:02pm

Several ways ....

panama wrote:

When using Excel, Enter can be used, but it sometimes caused errors. Does anyone have a suggestion for inserting line breaks that are easily recognized across a diverse range of platforms without causing any errors?

As bentbiker said, ALT+ENTER does the trick in Excel for 'Standard Linebreaks'.

If using Notepad, just push the ENTER key for 'Standard Linebreaks'.

But some Garmins don't display 'Standard Linebreaks'. They require <br> This includes nuvi 350 and nuvi360. We discovered recently that some nuvi 2xx also require this modification. POI Verifier will convert the 'Standard Linebreaks' to the linebreaks required by the nuvi.
See: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/1486

RT

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